I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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